Bpifrance
Coverage of Bpifrance in the Nexus archive.
- INTERVIEW: Bpifrance to recruit civilian firms for defence production
Bpifrance plans to recruit civilian firms for defense production as traditional suppliers cannot meet increasing military demand.
- Abu Dhabi doubles down on French AI with fresh deals
Abu Dhabi's MGX is expanding its AI data center investments in France with a €7.5 billion joint venture involving Bpifrance, Nvidia, and Mistral. The project includes 3 gigawatts of water-free cooling compute capacity powered by France’s nuclear grid and a separate Core42 expansion in Buffalo, New York, to 60 megawatts.
- Bahrain presses ahead with plan to buy French aluminum smelter
Aluminium Bahrain is proceeding with a $2.2 billion plan to acquire France’s Aluminium Dunkerque, a smelter currently owned by American Industrial Partners. The deal’s price has risen from $1.2 billion in March due to aluminum prices hitting a four-year high, partly driven by supply disruptions linked to the Iran war and attacks on Alba’s facilities.